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Queens of the Renaissance

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By M. Beresford Ryley
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The book presents six character studies of prominent European women—Catherine of Siena, Beatrice d’Este, Anne of Brittany, Lucrezia Borgia, Margaret d’Angoulême, and Renée, Duchess of Ferrara—tracing how their lives reflect differing attitudes toward religion, power, domesticity, intellect, and the emerging cultural energies of the Renaissance. The author emphasizes individuality over exhaustive scholarship, drawing on portraits and contemporary sources to illuminate temperaments and reputations, and discusses uncertainties in identification of images. Biographical sketches balance anecdote and interpretation to suggest how each life embodied distinct responses to opportunity, constraint, and public expectation.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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BEATRICE AND LUDOVICO KNEELING. ALTAR PIECE BY ZENALE AT BRERA Frontispiece
From a Photograph by Messrs. Anderson  
STATUE IN WOOD OF ST. CATHERINE, BY NEROCCIO LANDI 2
From a Photograph by Messrs. Lombardi  
ST. CATHERINE’S HOUSE AT SIENA 16
From a Photograph by Messrs. Lombardi  
CATHERINE PRAYING AT AN EXECUTION. FRESCO BY SODOMA 18
THE BRIDGE AT PAVIA 61
BEATRICE D’ESTE. BUST IN THE LOUVRE 64
From a Photograph by Messrs. Levy  
PORTRAIT, PROBABLY OF CECILIA GALLERANI, SAID TO BE BY AMBROGIO DA PREDIS 90
From the Collection of the Earl of Roden  
LUCREZIA CRIVELLI, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI 96
From a Photograph by Messrs. Mansell  
PROBABLE PORTRAIT OF BIANCA SFORZA, WIFE OF GALEAZZO SANSEVERINO 98
From a Photograph by Messrs. Mansell  
CHURCH OF ST. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE AT MILAN 100
From a Photograph by Messrs. Brogi  
EFFIGY OF BEATRICE D’ESTE AT SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM 102
FROM THE CALENDRIER, IN ANNE’S BOOK OF HOURS IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE, PARIS 120
From a Photograph by Messrs. Berthaud  
ANNE KNEELING. FROM THE BOOK OF HOURS IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE 128
From a Photograph by Messrs. Berthaud  
ST. URSULA. FROM ANNE’S BOOK OF HOURS IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE 140
From a Photograph by Messrs. Berthaud  
PROBABLE PORTRAIT OF LUCREZIA IN “ST. CATHERINE AND THE ELDERS,” BY PINTORRICCHIO 152
From a Photograph by Messrs. Brogi  
VIRGIN AND CHILD, BY PINTORRICCHIO, IN THE HALL OF ARTS AT THE VATICAN 159
From a Photograph by Messrs. Anderson  
THE ANNUNCIATION. FROM THE SERIES OF FRESCOES PAINTED BY PINTORRICCHIO AT THE VATICAN 171
From a Photograph by Messrs. Anderson  
SUSANNAH AND THE ELDERS. FROM THE SERIES OF FRESCOES PAINTED BY PINTORRICCHIO AT THE VATICAN 188
From a Photograph by Messrs. Anderson  
HEAD OF GASTON DE FOIX 206
From the Monument at Milan  
CHARLES V. 226
From a Photograph by Messrs. Giraudon  
MARGARET D’ANGOULÊME. FROM A DRAWING AFTER CORNEILLE DE LYON 248
From a Photograph by Messrs. Giraudon  
RENÉE OF FERRARA, AGED FIFTEEN, BY CORNEILLE DE LYON 254
From a Photograph by Messrs. Giraudon  
THE CASTELLO AT FERRARA 260
RENÉE, DUCHESS OF FERRARA. FROM A DRAWING AT THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE 294
From a Photograph by Messrs. Giraudon